Comment: I also had a few pimples here and there, but once I started taking this medicine, I got TERRIBLE acne. It was all over my face and painful. I had issues sleeping, and I was extremely moody (the insecurity from the acne DID NOT help).

Comment:I also had a few pimples here and there, but once I started taking this medicine, I got TERRIBLE acne. It was all over my face and painful. I had issues sleeping, and I was extremely moody (the insecurity from the acne DID NOT help). Hide Full Comment

Comment: I have been on this pill for 3 months now. I get migraines from time to time that are actually horrible and sometimes last like two days. Also, Idk if anyone else experienced this on viorele but my periods eversince taking this pill have been SO heavy and SO painful!!! idk if this is normal. My pharmacy actually changed me from viorele to kariva now so I am going to see how it goes with Karvia now
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Comment:I have been on this pill for 3 months now. I get migraines from time to time that are actually horrible and sometimes last like two days. Also, Idk if anyone else experienced this on viorele but my periods eversince taking this pill have been SO heavy and SO painful!!! idk if this is normal. My pharmacy actually changed me from viorele to kariva now so I am going to see how it goes with Karvia now. hopefully the pain goes away and i hope my period gets lighter. my periods were always super light but eversince Viorele they are horrilby heavy. Hide Full Comment

Comment: So if anyone is wondering, I have read all of these comments and they all apply.bloating, nausea, weight/appetite gain (it's been 12 days) extreme rage, breat tenderness and lumps. I have probably gained 5 pounds in less than two weeks.i knew something was wrong, DO NOT TAKE IT!

Comment:So if anyone is wondering, I have read all of these comments and they all apply.bloating, nausea, weight/appetite gain (it's been 12 days) extreme rage, breat tenderness and lumps. I have probably gained 5 pounds in less than two weeks.i knew something was wrong, DO NOT TAKE IT! Hide Full Comment

Comment: Been on the Viorelle for about 4 months now. So far its been a positive experience. My periods are relatively light. Cramps are about the same if not lesser depending on the heaviness of the period. So cramp severity is usually an inidcation of the period heaviness or lightness. One month I hardly got a period at all. This past weekend was my 1st real period experience on this pill, mensing for 5
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Comment:Been on the Viorelle for about 4 months now. So far its been a positive experience. My periods are relatively light. Cramps are about the same if not lesser depending on the heaviness of the period. So cramp severity is usually an inidcation of the period heaviness or lightness. One month I hardly got a period at all. This past weekend was my 1st real period experience on this pill, mensing for 5 days. I switched from the ring which I did like and was on for years, but after I turned 30 I swear the ring and my body chemistry were not having it. I started developing BV symptoms all the time when it never occured before turning 30. So I began to think my body was trying to tell me something about the ring and it was rejecting it. I tried everything to get the symptoms from reocurring as often as they were and switching from the ring helped. Im a really small person as it is I would love to be hormore free but when I go off of hormonal birth control I shrink, litterally in size. Im 31, standing 5'4" weighing 103 lbs on average. I cannot afford to lose any weight without looking like a prepubescent teen, so going on non hormonal birth control is not an option for me.
I felt I was more emotionally unbalanced on the ring than I do with this pill. Im also on mood stablizers so maybe I dont feel the depression symptom like others Im reading are experiencing. My sex drive is so, so. But I think much of that has to do with being on an SSRI. Before mood stabilizers and when I wasnt on birth control for aome periods my sex drive was insane. Now its just kinda meh. I wish it was higher theres not just one thing I can blame that on.
Overall this birth control is a thumbs up. Ive also tried the implant in the past, utterly hated it. That thing along killed my sex drive more than any birth control method Ive ever tried. I had it removed halfway into the 3 years you can have it in for.
I hate taking a pill every day, but what else am I gunna do? I take pills every day anyways.Hide Full Comment

Comment: I was taking azurette for about three months I had switched over to azurette from a different pill that was not helping me. I had no side effects switching I loved azurette it normalized my periods and I would start to cramp a bit a week before my period just like clockwork. However recently my doctor switched me from azurette to viorele I have been on it for 16 Days now and about 5 days ago I sta
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Comment:I was taking azurette for about three months I had switched over to azurette from a different pill that was not helping me. I had no side effects switching I loved azurette it normalized my periods and I would start to cramp a bit a week before my period just like clockwork. However recently my doctor switched me from azurette to viorele I have been on it for 16 Days now and about 5 days ago I started to have a panic attack which than turned into daily crying. I feel like I am losin my mind I usually get anxious or panic attacks but I am to manage them. After reading the reviews I wonder if this pill is making it worse for now I am stopping it. Hide Full Comment

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